LINGUIST List 18.1374

Mon May 07 2007

Calls: General Ling/Georgia; Computational Ling/USA

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>


Directory         1.    Tsira Baramidze, International Caucasian Symposium
        2.    Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Translating Biology: Text Mining Tools That Work


Message 1: International Caucasian Symposium
Date: 04-May-2007
From: Tsira Baramidze <TSU.CAUC.avoe.ge>
Subject: International Caucasian Symposium


Full Title: International Caucasian Symposium

Date: 22-Oct-2007 - 25-Oct-2007 Location: Tbilisi, Georgia Contact Person: Tsira Baramidze Meeting Email: TSU.CAUC.avoe.ge Web Site: http://www.tsu.ge

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Georgian (kat) Russian (rus) English (eng)

Call Deadline: 20-Jul-2007

Meeting Description:

Humanitarian Faculty of Institute of Caucasian studies (Georgia, Tbilisi) of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University will carry out International Symposium of Caucasian Studies on October 22-25, 2007. The volunteers, who want to participate in the symposium, must represent thesis for 15 minutes report (+10 minutes for discussion). There will be receipted reports concerning to Iberian-Caucasian languages, other languages spread in Caucasus, areal linguistic, the history and culture of Caucasian Peoples. The working languages on the symposium are Georgian, Russian and English.

The thesis will be receipted at any language listed above. The thesis will be receipted with the format of electronic post pdf for special marks using with Unicode. It is possible to send the printed forms by e-mail. The thesis attached with their bibliography and materials must not be more than 2 printed pages. Must be directed the title of the report, author and authors, e-mail addresses of author and authors, telephone, fax, post address. The final term of receiving thesis is 20.07.2007. The decision of organization committee will be announced to the authors on 05.09.2007.
Message 2: Translating Biology: Text Mining Tools That Work
Date: 04-May-2007
From: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen <kevin.cohengmail.com>
Subject: Translating Biology: Text Mining Tools That Work



Full Title: Translating Biology: Text Mining Tools That Work

Date: 04-Jan-2008 - 08-Jan-2008 Location: Big Island, Hawaii, USA Contact Person: Kevin Bretonnel Cohen Meeting Email: kevin.cohengmail.com - Philip Bourne University of California San Diego - Hong Yu University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

Submission information:

The core of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing consists of rigorously peer-reviewed full-length papers reporting on original work. Accepted papers will be published in a hard-bound archival proceedings, and the best of these will be presented orally to the entire conference. Researchers wishing to present their research without official publication are encouraged to submit a one page abstract by noon, November 9, 2007 to present their work in the poster sessions.

Important dates:

Paper submissions due: July 16, 2007 Notification of paper acceptance: September 5, 2007 Final paper deadline: September 24, 2007 midnight PT Abstract deadline: November 9, 2007 Meeting: January 4-8, 2008

For full details of submission requirements, see the session web site at http://psb.stanford.edu/cfp-nlp.html.